To display photos from you photostream on your website, you can use the 'user' attribute. Displaying photos from you own photostream is a straight forward process, unlike displaying photo's from a photostream of someone else, or a photostream of a group. To display photos from your own photo stream, use the following expression: [flickr user=me limit=28]. For the flickr account the plugin uses on this website, it will result in:
Just like with sets, we can display one photo of a stream on the webpage and have it linked to a collection of photos from a (user/group)stream. It works in a similar way, by putting the photo attribute with value "display" in the expression. For example the expression [flickr user=me photo=display size=small align=center] results in:
In aproximately the same way you can display:
as explained below.
As you probably would have guessed from the paragraph above, you can display the photostream from a different flickr user by using the user attribute. This is a bit more complicated than in looks however. The method used by the flickr API to access someones photostream is by a user's ID (which is displayed almost nowhere) instead of a users username (which is displayed on virtually every user page on Flickr). Luckily there is a simple tool available on the internet to obtain someones user ID by his or her users profile URL: http://idgettr.com
For instance, the user profile url "http://www.flickr.com/photos/puurthomas" will result in "85575418@N00"
With the user ID you can complete the expression to display someones photostream. [flickr user=85575418@N00 limit=28] results in:
Another option which probably will not be used that often, is to display the photo stream of all users on flickr (the most recent photo's uploaded to flickr). The expression for this is [flickr user=all limit=28]
The process for displaying photos from a group is similar to the process of displaying photos from a user stram. You have to obtain the group ID (which can be obtained via http://idgettr.com). The expression attribute to be used for a group is 'group' (how surprising), so to display photos from the group "Veluwe" (A group about a national park in The Netherlands, which has group ID 25131588@N00), the expression to be used is: [flickr group=25131588@N00 limit=28]
Like the expression options for displaying a photo set, the maximum amount of photos to be displayed can be set with the expression attribute 'limit'. To display the first 2 photos from the user stream above, the expression is [flickr user=me limit=2], which results in:
Again, we can select a range of photos by adding the section attribute. For example, to display the second 2 photos from the user stream above, the expression is [flickr user=me limit=2 section=2]
Since version 3.5 the plugin features a download function for the original format of the photo. This option (disabled by default for copyright reasons) can be enabled or disabled in the plugin settins or on a per expression basis using the download attribute. Please visit this page for an example.
Note: This option is only available when the original photo format is available on the for the plugin. In most cases this means that the plugin requires to be linked to a flickr pro accaunt, that the plugin is authenticated with that authenticated and that the photos are from the linked account.
Please respect copyright, especially with this feature!
